[adrenalinfeed]

Hi guys. We just started this site called adrenalinfeed.com where we pick videos we think are awesome, and present them on our blog in a "one-per-day" format. So far the traffic has been building up to about 200-400 UV on a normal day, and so far two days with over 1100 visitors, thanks to Reddit. We´re so far using web10.nu, which is a cheap host. Some time soon we will need to upgrade, but we don't know how much server resources we need. We would probhably want something easy to manage and extend (yeah, and something which doesn't cost too much). Does anybody have some good tips? Thanks in advance for any answer.

[henbast]

Are you hosting the videos themselves? If not, then get a simple VPS with nginx and cache the **** out of everything. You'll be able to handle hundreds of requests/sec on a basic setup if you're just serving HTML. You can get proper good VPS's from Linodefrom $20pm.

p.s. I'm typing this while eating and rushing so it might make less sense than normal. if so, I'll come back later with a better post

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adrenalinfeed, on 04 March 2011 - 01:49 PM, said:

Hi guys. We just started this site called adrenalinfeed.com where we pick videos we think are awesome, and present them on our blog in a "one-per-day" format. So far the traffic has been building up to about 200-400 UV on a normal day, and so far two days with over 1100 visitors, thanks to Reddit. We´re so far using web10.nu, which is a cheap host. Some time soon we will need to upgrade, but we don't know how much server resources we need. We would probhably want something easy to manage and extend (yeah, and something which doesn't cost too much). Does anybody have some good tips? Thanks in advance for any answer.

Yes A VPS with nginx server should speed up your site speed and avoid server overload problem. You can check how it works for a month if everything is fine with traffic and your VPS you can stay on it or later think about upgrade if the traffic increases.

[adrenalinfeed]

We ended up getting an account at dreamhost. Looks like a very good option at this stage.

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adrenalinfeed, on 16 March 2011 - 03:14 PM, said:

We ended up getting an account at dreamhost. Looks like a very good option at this stage.

Ohh.. so are the problems solved for you now?

[cepa]

all you need is cache dude

ask your admin or run <?php phpinfo(); if the 'apc' module is enabled, if so you can use persistent cache storage which can give you a terrific speed boost,
here is a simple class i have wrote some time ago:

http://files.ognisco...scache-20110608

even 2000 page views per second